Arrghhhhhh........Skybird beat me!
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Originally Posted by AJ!
The war has had terrible conciquences, but at the same time it was a just cause.
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Indeed but its debatable what exactly the cause was, WMD's? Regime change? Oil? A Bush famly vendetta?
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Saddam needed to be stopped and an attempt had to be made to crush the terrorist groups operating in and around Iraq.
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Saddam pretty much had been stopped, the policy of containment was very succesful and high ranking members of the US government were queing up to say so. And as far as anyone can tell there were no terrorist groups operating in Iraq, until it was invaded, check this thread out here:
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=133018
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I dont think anyone could have foresaw the situation that has unfolded although the way the war was planned could be called into question
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IIRC quite a few people were predicting how the situation might develop and it wasn't the planning for the war that was faulty, it was the planning for the post war period that was lacking.
The thousands of seriously wounded and crippled young men coming back from Iraq are paying for that lack of planning.